Posts Tagged ‘roof’

Ad Watch: Schumacher drives Gullwing SLS on tunnel roof, then winks

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

This is just too good! Nothing can prepare you for the cheesy-ness of this Mercedes advert. What you’re about to watch is a well-shot farce. Schumacher, a stunning new Gullwing SLS, a tunnel and a mean Germanic exhaust note. Enzo must be cursing from on-high. The optimist in me hopes the director asked Schumacher to perform the wink at the end, but the cynical bastard in me still thinks he enjoyed it way too much.

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Driven (loudly) – The SL 63 AMG MadMan Edition

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Every now and then a movie comes along which quite simply blows you away. A Dark Knight was that movie for me. It is a masterful arrangement of celluloid; a symphony of action, suspense, emotion and well, explosions really.

Heath Ledger was remarkable as the joker: he personified evil. His polar opposite is obviously our winged hero, in a thankfully less camp batsuit. And representing both sides in one tormented and twisted character: TwoFace. This poor bugger starts of a charming bastion of all that is saintly until someone really pisses him off, creating the most frightening villain imaginable since Anton Chigur in No Country for Old Men.

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